Willis John Abbot (March 16, 1863 – May 19, 1934) was an American journalist, editor, and a prolific historical and biographical author. Many of his works focused on war, army, navy, marine corps, andmerchant marines.
Abbot was among the founding editors of theAmerican Society of Newspaper Editors.[2][4] He played a role leading the movement for Ethics Enforcement withHerbert Bayard Swope working on the constitution of the ANSE. All these actions taken towards ethics amelioration was seen negatively by president Hopwood. Throughout this ethics debate Abbot was on the board of directors of the ANSE. He later served as president of the ANSE.[citation needed]
Battle-Fields of '61 - A Narrative of the Military Operations of the War for the Union Up to the End of the Peninsular Campaign - Dodd, Mead, and Company, New York, 1889 - With Illustrations by W. C. Jackson
Battle-Fields and Campfires - A Narrative of the Principal Military Operations of the Civil War From the Removal of McClellan to the Accession of Grant (1862 - 1663) - Dodd, Mead, and Company, New York, 1890 - With Illustrations by W. C. Jackson
Battle-Fields and Victory - A Narrative of the Principal Military Operations of the Civil War From the Accession of Grant to the End of the War - Dodd, Mead, and Company, New York, 1891 - With Illustrations by W. C. Jackson
Blue-Jackets of '76 - A History of the Naval Battles of the American Revolution - Together with a Narrative of the War with Tripoli - Dodd, Mead, and Company, New York, 1888 - With Illustrations by W. C. Jackson and H. W. McVickar
Blue-Jackets of 1812 - A History of the Naval Battles of the Second War With Great Britain - To Which is Prefixed an Account of the French War of 1798 - Dodd, Mead, and Company, New York, 1887 - With Illustrations by W. C. Jackson and H. W. McVickar
Naval History of the United States, Volume 1, a re-issue of theBlue-Jackets of '76, and part ofBlue-Jackets of 1812. Peter Fenelon Collier, New York, 1886, 1887, 1888, 1890 - With Illustrations by W. C. Jackson and H. W. McVickar
Naval History of the United States, Volume 2, a re-issue of part ofBlue-Jackets of 1812,Blue-Jackets of '61, andBlue-Jackets in Time of Peace. Peter Fenelon Collier, New York, 1886, 1887, 1888, 1890 - With Illustrations by W. C. Jackson and H. W. McVickar
The Story of Our Merchant Marine - Its Period of Glory, Its Prolonged Decadence and Its Vigorous Revival as the Result of the World War - a re-issue ofAmerican Merchant Ships and Sailors - Dodd, Mead, and Company, New York, 1902, 1919 - With Illustrations by Ray Brown
Soldiers of the Sea - The Story of the United States Marine Corps - Dodd, Mead, and Company, New York, 1918 - With Photographs
The Nations at War - A Current History - Illustrated with Many Plates in Full Color, Photographs From Private Sources, Maps, Charts, and Diagrams - Syndicate Publishing Company, 1914 (revised editions published in 1916, 1917 and 1918 by Leslie-Judge Company, New York)
Pictorial History of the World War - Leslie-Judge Company, New York, 1918 - With Numerous Illustrations from Drawings by the Foremost War Artists and Photographs Taken in the Field by Experts of Every Nation
The United States in the Great War - Leslie-Judge Company, New York, 1919 - With Many Illustrations from Drawings, in Color and Black and White, and Photographs Taken by Experts, Many of Them Under Fire.
"Abbot, Willis John".The Biographical Dictionary of America. Vol. 1. 1906. p. 24.
